The Bill modernises the form of bankers’ books. Its certification architecture must also be modernised without diluting the evidentiary discipline that gives these records their legal weight.

The Draft Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill 2024, despite being pending for more than two years since its drafting, includes a provision in Section 9A for making provision for emergency arbitrators through arbitral institutions in the same way that orders can be made under Section 17(2).

This post argues that the court’s clarification creates an asymmetrical safeguard which is a weak deterrent against strategic litigants seeking to prolong a Section 34 application.